My family’s lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.

It’s a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there’s a theory – sometimes it’s better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

It’s hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that’s what we had in GN’R.

Yes, we’re still five little people with a noisy attitude.

As to the number of novels I’ve abandoned… I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that’s a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

We could receive a storm surge of three to five feet.

I have assigned myself a Hooray Factor of five. This is the top level, and is the only level that has a physical representation—that of a high five. But don’t try to give me a...

It’s not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It’s that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the ’50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well… Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was...

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

I’ve written 16 children’s books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

I’ve got two brothers and two sisters, so there’s five of us and we’re all very close, which is cool.

30 years and 55 pictures – not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don’t remember the text – instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.

‘The Last Five Years’ was a musical in 2002, and it’s a deconstruction of a marriage.

I think The Police made five great records and then called it a day. They went out on top.

The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn’t come home.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests – I bought five sets.

For the first time in my life I feel important. I’d like to have five babies.

The whole being-in-a-room interview thing, at a junket or a film festival, is very inhuman. You meet the person, have five or 10 minutes to talk, and it’s not like a conversation.

What was so good about it was that the set that they originally built stayed there, and weathered over the five years. It got five summers and five winters of weather. It became more and...

I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I’m totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli,...

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

I’ve always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as...

I started writing ‘Brick Lane’ when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

When I was five. That’s when I started to love film.

I’m luckier than my grandfather, who didn’t move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate...

Well, I’ve just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.

I smashed my tailbone and couldn’t sit for five years, and I broke my clavicle because I thought I was a great surfer, and of course, I could be a great snowboarder, too. Man, was...

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they’re 21.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we’d stay right even.

For the last five years I’ve been in the production business.

The body is something absolutely miraculous. It’s amazing, the five senses.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.